List of evangelical Christians

This is a list of people who are notable due to their influence on the popularity or development of evangelical Christianity or for their professed Evangelicalism.

Historical

• John Bunyan, (1628 - 1688) - persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress
• Fanny Crosby (1820 - 1915) - blind American hymnwriter of many famous hymns including Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine
• Gareth Davies - a Methodist preacher and a leader of Evangelicalism in Wales
• Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758) - American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening
• Charles Grandison Finney (1792 - 1875) - preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
• Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813 - 1843) - Scottish preacher and minister of St Peter's, Dundee.
• John Newton (1725 - 1807) - English clergyman; author of Amazing Grace
• Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, leaders in the Holiness movement
• Charles Spurgeon, 19th century English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism
• Billy Sunday (1862 - 1935) - American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition
• Henry Venn (1725 - 1797) - founder of the small, but highly influential Clapham Sect in Britain. His grandson, also named Henry Venn (1796 - 1873), pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory.
• Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788) - English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
• John Wesley (1703 - 1791) - English clergyman; founder of Methodism
• George Whitefield (1714 - 1770) - English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
• William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) - worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire

Contemporaries

Many could be listed under Neo-evangelicalism.

• George Barna, directing leader of the Barna Group, Ltd. (Christian research and training organization)
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• Nathan Braun, activist and author, founder of the Christian Vegetarian Association
• George Walker Bush, current President of the United States of America. United Methodist Church.
• Anthony "Tony" Campolo, Pacifist Southern Baptist Pastor. Professor in Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Leader from Compassion Ministry. (Christian left)
• Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship; author, columnist and speaker. Southern Baptist. Columnist in First Things and Christianity Today Magazines. Libertarian.
• James C. Dobson, Christian Psychologist, Church of Nazarene member, founder of Focus on the Family (Associated with the Christian right)
• Billy Graham (b. 1918) Evangelist and author. Southern Baptist. First Baptist Church.
• Franklin Graham (b. 1952), son of Billy Graham. Southern Baptist. Evangelist. Current leader of Samaritan`s Purse Ministry. Builder of houses for poor Shiites Muslims in Lebanon.
• Ted Haggard (born 1956), pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. He is currently the head of the National Association of Evangelicals. Associates himself with the controversial "Third Wave of the Holy Spirit" movement.
• Frank Laubach missionary, writer, founder of Laubach Literacy
• Luis Palau Argentinian Evangelist. Southern Baptist.
• Tony Perkins
• John Stott - former Rector of All Souls, Langham Place
• William Spock - Second in command of the starship Enterprise.
• Jim Wallis of Sojourners
• Ravi Zacharias (born 1946), Canadian apologist, born in India.
• Phillip Jensen notable Sydney Anglican
• Peter Jensen notable Sydney Anglican
• John Ashcroft
• Antolìn Tovar. Venezuelan Baptist Pastor. Martyr in fight against dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez.

Scholars and theologians

• Gleason Archer (May 22, 1916 – April 27, 2004) was a Biblical scholar, theologian, educator, and author.
• Greg Bahnsen
• Karl Barth - perhaps the most influentian theologian of the 20th Century
• Craig Blomberg
• FF Bruce (1910-1990) - British scholar
• Don Carson - Calvinist Baptist theologian and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School professor
• William Lane Craig
• James Dunn, English theologian
• John Frame - Calvinist Presbyterian theologian and Reformed Theological Seminary professor
• Norman Geisler
• Carl F. H. Henry (1913 - 2003) - founding editor of Christianity Today
• Gordon H. Clark
• Gary Habermas
• Richard Longenecker
• Bruce Metzger
• John Warwick Montgomery
• J.P. Moreland
• Harold Ockenga
• Thomas C. Oden (b. 1931) - father of Paleo-Orthodoxy; theologian associated with Drew University in New Jersey
• J.I. Packer - British-born Canadian theologian
• David Pawson (b. 1930) - British theologian
• Andrew Purves - Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
• Alvin Plantinga - University of Notre Dame, philoshopher, *Warrant and Christian Belief*
• Klyne Snodgrass - Professor North Park Theological Seminary, theologian and author of Between Two Truths.
• R. C. Sproul
• N.T. Wright
• Edwin M. Yamauchi - Christian scholar
• Merrill Unger
• Kelly James Clark - Calvin College, author *Return to Reason*
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, former Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theological at Yale Divinity School, author, *Lament for a Son*

Earlier evangelical scholars/theologians:

• Oswald T. Allis (1856-1930)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
• William Henry Green (1825 - 1900)
• James Orr (1844 - 1913)
• Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930)
• William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) Archaeologist

Authors

• William Cowper (1731 - 1800) - English poet/author of numerous hymns
• Hugh Hewitt - conservative radio talk show host, author
• Tim Lahaye - fundamentalist dispensationalist novelist, best-known for the popular Left Behind fictional series on the end times
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899 - 1981) - Calvinist Methodist pastor at Westminster Chapel in London; famous preacher, theologian and author
• John MacArthur (b. 1939) - Calvinist Baptist pastor and author; president of Fundamentalist Independent Churches Association
• John Piper - Calvinist Baptist pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and author of Desiring God and Let the Nations Be Glad
• Francis Schaeffer (1912 – 1984) - Calvinist evangelist, apologist, theologian, and author
• Joseph M. Scriven - Irish poet, moved to Canada and wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus after his fiancee's tragic death.
• Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843 - 1919) - preacher, writer, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA)
• Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897 - 1963) - preacher and author
• Rick Warren (b. 1954) - Southern Baptist pastor of Saddleback Community Church and popular author of The Purpose Driven Life
• Philip Yancey - author and editor Christianity Today columnist
• Tom Sine - co-founder of Mustard Seed Associates and author of Mustard Seed versus McWorld

Biblical archaeologists

• William F. Albright (1891 - 1971) - ceramics expert
• Kenneth Kitchen - Egyptologist

Educators

• Don Carson - professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (b. 1960) - President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky
• Dwight L. Moody (1837 - 1899) - American evangelist, pastor and educator
• Richard Mouw - President at Fuller Theological Seminary
• Chuck Swindoll, former president of the Dallas Theological Seminary